LCRC Goes WAY Too Far

By Loudoun Insider

This cartoon montage just arrived as part of an LCRC email blast. I am no fan of Barack Obama, but putting up a photo of him as a zombie with a bullet hole in his head???????????? Like him or not he is the legitimately elected the President of the United States and Commander in Chief of our armed services in a time of war. THIS IS DISGUSTING AND SHAMEFUL. Someone should send this to the US Secret Service.

“The disgusting image used today on a mass e-mail has no place in our politics. Ever,’’ said Pat Mullins, chairman of the state party. “The Republican Party of Virginia condemns the image and its use in the strongest possible terms.”

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LCRC members and Republican candidates: We are going to vanquish the zombies with clear thinking conservative principles and a truckload of Republican candy. Join us at 5pm at Ida Lee Park to decorate our floats. Bring candidate / endorsee signs and help us show our colors and then pass out the candy to the 20,000 strong parade crowd. The parade starts @ 6pm. It’s fun and a great way to represent our candidates to a ton of voters (and their kids) just before the election.

Somehow I knew Diversion Barb would be the first to show up to defend this. I criticized Palin’s crosshairs on Giffords, and this is even worse. If the local Dems put a bullet hole in Frank Wolf’s head I would be all over them as well.

If played right this could be the turning point in many local races in Loudoun. But with the “leadership” guiding DPVA and the LCDC I don’t see that happening.

I’m sorry, but under no circumstances is it proper for a political party to put out an official communique with a bullet hole in the forehead of the POTUS.

A bullet hole shown in the head of a sitting President in a political email, demonstrates horrible judgement, insensitivity, and complete cluelessness. There are plenty of people who are disappointed in Obama, but are not filled with hate, and certainly would NOT find ths funny. Something like this could be forwarded to the Secret Service.

I’m an Independent. I had a few local Republicans on my list to vote for, a few Dems as well.

Seeing this email has really made me reconsider. Is this what the LCRC is capable of? And what does that say about their candidates? Not pretty. And not one bit assuring that Republican candidates will be able to made nonpartisan decisions if elected. Do they buy into that kind of hate filled ridicule?

Which for me is a deal breaker.

PS Barbara. This is not about zombies at Halloween. It’s about the hole in Obama’s forehead. Inexcusable.

I don’t think that is a bullet hole, just a hole, possibly from decomposition. Plus, the blood is leaking out, dribbling down on the forehead instead of a spray pattern that one would expect from a bullet. Finally, the neat ring around the wound that ridges upward would indicate that the hole is from decomposition, an eruption from within the skull (brain being sucked out by another zombie?) or possibly the result of an impaling.

This is outrageous, disgusting, and inexcusable. This is hate mail, plain and simple. Like Lady M, I’m taking a serious look at the R candidates and I don’t think I’m ready to support any of them. OK, I’m using a wide brush. I want to see some of the moderate R’s come out and condemn this kind of sickening behaviour. If there are ANY moderates in the GOP.

eb, she’s been making the same kind of absurd excuses for weeks. This image shocks the conscience for any number of reasons, but I think that whoever approved it was just being consistent with the standard of behavior set by Eugene Delgaudio.

LI, I doubt there will be a retraction or apology from anyone. The pattern is that they will double down.

” I want to see some of the moderate R’s come out and condemn this kind of sickening behaviour. If there are ANY moderates in the GOP.”

This borders on being equally as stupid. This lack of judgement has nothing to do with moderates or conservatives. It has to do with someones lack of judgement and good sense. To make it about anything beyond that is hackery after the fact. That my friend is like I said, equally as stupid.

There’s no doubt in my mind that the agenda of the President and the Democratic Party is scary. However using Halloween and an image in poor taste is not the way to remind voters how scary Democrats are. The Office of President, regardless who occupies it, is a symbol of America and her greatness.

Well they are already trying to say that that round hole in his forehead isn’t a bullet hole, so it’s OK. Come on. Heads don’t tend to explode from decomposition processes, and if they did the end result would not be a small perfectly round hole.

This is is the stupidest thing you could imagine a week out from an election. I’ve always thought that if any group was capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory it was the LCRC. They are trying to make that a reality aren’t they?

“This lack of judgement has nothing to do with moderates or conservatives.”

Um….except that it was from the LCRC. Not some random non-profit. Not the Boy Scouts. Not your church. From the official county-wide Republican Committee in an email, presumably, to their entire mailing list.

Politicians are ACTUALLY being shot in the head out there, remember? Happened in Arizona back in January. Inexcusable.

Some of the most sensible commentary I’ve seen on this blog in a long time is right here, right now. Fred and Mr. Stone have got it nailed: this is not about anything having to do with party. It is about judgment and respect for an institution.

Anyone seeking to defend this garbage is doing the rest of us a favor by letting us know who they are. And by “us,” this time, I mean the larger portion of the politically active community that, regardless of party ID, demands a minimum level of decency from all involved, left, right, or otherwise.

mosborn, let’s not rush to blame the entire LCRC for this. The current leadership of the LCDC has been responsible for some real boners this cycle. Blaming that entire body would be unfair. Same here, I’d say.

But let’s see if the LCRC’s leaders have at least the class it takes for someone to own up to their own mistakes:

If you read Delgaudio’s e-mail, which is about gays infiltrating institutions, the graphic is clearly not a “call to violence.” That would take either the imagination of someone disturbingly focused on violence or a desperate need to fail at creating an issue a week before the election. Perhaps Mr. Weintraub needs to look at himself.

According to Weintraub disturbed, agenda-driven illogic my Zombie Charles Nelson Reilly costume is a “dog whistle” call for violence against gays. (Oddly enough the glasses were the hardest thing to find.)

Times-Mirror just asked me for a quote on this. Not to scoop them, but what I said was, “I hope this only reveals a lapse in the judgment of an LCRC officer and does not reflect the general level of judgment in the overall membership of LCRC. I call upon whomever it was who made the decision to send this material to stand up, identify themselves, take responsibility, then do the right thing by resigning from any position of leadership they may hold within the Republican Party.”

Donny boy, the original photo which Delgaudio had photo-shopped was one of red blood. No doubting the original is depicting a violent death. Now you go on there little fella and make this into some colorful rainbow with no hate filled imagery all you want but, as I’ve said to you and others before, Delgaudio is way way beyond a reasonable doubt on these things. He meant it for what it is, an image depicting the death of homosexuals. Oh, what he really meant it for was to get a lot of vulnerable people to give him cash, lots of cash. How much have you given to him Donny boy?

Donny, let me repeat what I said just a few minutes ago – representing infiltration by a pool of flowing blood and a bloody handprint a la a crime scene is extremely poor taste and frankly stupid as hell.

You know, its hard to think which image is more offensive, the hole in Obama’s head or the bloody door. First I thought it was the hole in the head of our President but after seeing the original, the blood door takes the day.

Who is behind the art work? The email says it came from the chairman@loudoungop.com. I don’t think a PR guy from the NRA would be able to create this type of digital graphic, maybe he thought of it but doubt he created it. Folks should check with Robert Jesionowski, he is listed as the Communications Director on the LCRC website. Maybe he can clear this up.

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